Display package



Allg- 27, 1935. A. A. sci -ILEGEL 2,012,483

DISPLAY PACKAGE l A Filed May 9, 1933 INVENTOR AL FRF@ A. 5cm/.5561.

// ATTO R N EYS uniransrares agregar ortica DISPLAY monaca Alfred A. Schlegel, Akron, Ohio, assignor to The Jaite-Grant Display Bag Company, Cleveland, (hio, a corporation of Ohio Application May 9, 1933, Serial No. 670,062 2 claims.. (ci. 22a-55;

This invention relates to display packages. bottom bellows type bag. In any even-t, the sides Heretofore it has been proposed to package l2 are preferably rounded or tapered as at Illa, various articles such as rolls, cakes, etc., in disbeyond the intervening portion of the tray, to play packages comprising rather expensive cardfacilitate insertion of one end of the tray into board cartons having a display window therein the open mouth of a bag. lThe sides I2 also 5 or rather expensive cardboard tray structures are preferably tapered or rounded as at l2", l2b having more or less rigid ends as well as sides to facilitate drawLng the mouth portions of the about which a display wrapper, either wholly or bag together to close the bag in a neat manner partly of transparent material, may be applied about the tray and its contents. so that the contents of the tray are visible through A suitable display bag is illustrated in Fg-, lo the wrapper. ure 2 and may comprise a bag of opaque ma- The general purpose of the present invention is terial indicated at I 4 with a window of transto provide an inexpensive display package of this parent material l5 therein. This may be a flextype utilizing in combination a window display ible, opaque paper bag having flexible window bag and a tray receivable in the bag along with material such as "Cellophane. The bag may the product to be packaged, whereby the flexible be wholly of transparent material.

bag is braced by the tray to make an effective As shown in Figure 2, the tray is formed by package of this type in a most economical manfolding upwardly the sides I2 and the articles to Ilebe packaged, such as the rolls or cakes i6, are

The foregoing or other objects of the invention placed on the tray. The tray is then inserted 2o are obtained in the package illustrated in the acinto the open end of the bag which is expanded companying drawing and described below. It is in the usual way to receive the tray and its conto be understood that the invention is not limtents.

ited to the specific form thereof shown and de- As shown in Figure 2, the bag is closed about SCTbedthe tray and its contents as by drawing together Of the accompanying drawing, the mouth portions and folding, clipping or other- Figure 1 is a plan view of a tray blank embodywise securing the same.

ing the il'lVelltOD; It will be apparent from the foregoing that by Figure 2 is a plan View illustrating the inserthe invention a simple, economical display packl tion of rolls or cakes with the tray into a lexage has been provided. Obviously modifications ible display bag; of the invention may be resorted to without de- Figure3isalongitudinal sectional view through parting from the spirit thereof or the scope of a package embodying the invention including the the appended claims.

article to be packaged and the tray inserted to= What is claimed is:-

gether and enclosed in the bag; and 1. The combination with a comparatively ex- Figure 4 is a transverse section through the ible bag, of an open tray of comparatively stift` jiackage shown Figure 3. sheet material inserted with the article to be Referring to the drawing, the numeral l0 despackaged thereon into the bag, the sides of the ignates a blank of relatively stiff sheet material tray at one end thereof being extended beyond such as cardboard which may be scored or otherthe bottom of the tray to facilitate insertion of 4u f1 wise formed to be folded on lines il, H to prothe tray into the bag.

vide a tray open at both ends and having sides 2. The combination with a comparatively exl2, i2. The sides l2 at one end of the tray 'ible bag, of an open tray of comparatively stiff may be suitably shaped so as to fit into the botsheet material inserted with the article to be tom of the particular bag for which the blank packaged thereon into the bag, the sides of the is adapted. The present blank shown is adapted tray at one end thereof extending beyond the for a bellows type bag with a simple folded end. intervening portion of the tray and being tapered Blanks of suitable shape may obviously be deto facilitate insertion of the tray into the bag. vised for other forms of bags such as the flat ALFRED A. SCHLEGEL- 

